April 6 » Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London, after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
May 7 » In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector—a primitive radio receiver. In some parts of the former Soviet Union the anniversary of this day is celebrated as Radio Day.
May 25 » The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Jingsong as its president.
August 31 » German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his navigable balloon.
September 18 » The Atlanta Exposition Speech on race relations is delivered by Booker T. Washington.
December 28 » Wilhelm Röntgen publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, which later will be known as x-rays.
Day of death October 20, 1968
The temperature on October 20, 1968 was between 5.2 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 9.7 °C. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (60%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
March 2 » Baggeridge Colliery closes marking the end of over 300 years of coal mining in the Black Country.
March 16 » General Motors produces its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado.
April 29 » The controversial musical Hair, a product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, opens at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, with some of its songs becoming anthems of the anti-Vietnam War movement.
September 24 » First episode of 60 Minutes airs on television.
November 15 » The Cleveland Transit System becomes the first transit system in the western hemisphere to provide direct rapid transit service from a city's downtown to its major airport.
December 22 » Cultural Revolution: People's Daily posted the instructions of Mao Zedong that "The intellectual youth must go to the country, and will be educated from living in rural poverty."
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